welcome to my unboxing and first look at the HTC 1S so this is positioned
slightly below the 1X in terms of HTC's product stack which means that you find
a slightly different array of features so one notable thing that's not on this
phone is NFC uh however it does have a lot going for it so it's using an a
Snapdragon S4 crate uh plus core yes
thank you plus it doesn't help when there's Pro and plus and play I mean
couldn't they have just gone with like good better and like awesomest or
something like that no no Pro Plus and play so unlike the Droid DNA which we've
also had a look at recently it does not have the super high-end chipset but this
should translate to better battery life as well as uh really not that much of a
uh of a reduction in performance it's running adreno 225 GPU which is sort of
like a like a souped up 220 on a lower manufacturing uh manufacturing node so
the performance of it even though it's not a current generation adreno 300
series is actually better than something like an adreno 305 which is a newer
generation but actually lower-end chipset uh the resolution of the screen
it is an Amo LED screen which should help you in terms of power consumption
as well as in terms of black levels so we're going to go ahead and just power
it up really quick here here so remember guys Amed means the actual pixels
themselves on the phone are emitting light rather than relying on a backlight
with an LCD overlay over the top so it's a 960x 540 resolution which is sort of
uh coin the term is 540p so or QHD or
whatever you wanted to call it so it's a 16x9 aspect ratio that is one quar the
resolution of 1080p okay so it's not quite 720P but it should still look
pretty darn good on a 4.3 in screen one of the other things they're including
and I can't remember for the life of me what they call it anymore but is their
sort of better P picture taking quality concept so that is an f2.0 aperture lens
which basically amounts to more light being allowed into the lens now guys
when it comes to taking pictures it's physics so there's your sensor size that
assists in having more light hit it there's your lens quality your lens size
that Gathers more light because when it comes to low light performance you can
only do so many fancy digital tricks before it's just like okay well no we
actually just need more light we need more data so having a clearer lens is
one of the things that can help with light transmission through the glass to
the sensor itself and give you a better quality image it's an 8 megapixel rear
camera with a built-in flash and one of the other things you'll notice about the
back of the phone is it has their Beats Audio branding so this pretty much
amounts to an equalizer setting that I personally didn't find enhanced my
listening experience however compared to the iPhone 4 that I used for U two years
I guess uh it's not like the sound quality without beats enabled it's a
software feature so you can just turn it off was any worse so they're using a
good quality audio chipset on it it's just that I don't personally get any
benefit from the Beats EQ setting so you
can see right here that this is not a stock Android uh layout so there it's
using HTC's sense 4.0 Plus or I think
that's what it's called something along on those lines and they apparently want a SIM card in oh look at that they
include little instructions for how to insert your sim card so you take this
piece off apparently or nope this
one you know what give me a minute ah
yes right here so you peel this guy
up and just like that ah come on you can do it go
lus and that was when he broke it nope didn't break it there you go so SIM card
goes right there and then you can also see there's some other stuff in here
that presumably you wouldn't need to use for anything so we're going to go ahead
and put that back on there you go also on the top you find your lock button as
well as your headphone jack so it's your power and lock button rather on the side
you find a volume rocker and then on the
other side you find oh cool is that uh
is that mini HDMI no USB I'm sorry I
didn't look that closely at it so that's a USB connector or so they've opted for
a side mounted charging connector which is something that I haven't seen as
often as the more traditional bottom mounted charging connector so image chip
that's actually a part of their whole sort of better camera concept so it's
supposed to have a one second startup wow that was actually definitely less
than a 1 second uh so it says unable to use the flash because the battery is too
low right now but there you go how quickly can we take pictures Focus shoot
Focus shoot hopefully you can see this I don't know if you can I think I might
just totally be standing in the way so in terms of the pictures we're
taking I think Auto rotates off Clarity wise it looks wow actually really
good I guess it's about what you'd expect when we're using Studio lighting
uh so let's move into some size comparisons how big is it it's a 4.3 in
screen so I think I mentioned that before but how does it actually compare
to something else so here is a Galaxy Note 2 so that's what it looks like
compared to one of those all right here is an iPhone 4 so that's
a significantly smaller screen size okay moving right along here is
another HTC phone so this is an 8s
dismiss dismiss go away there we go that's an 8s so that's only a 4 in
screen so it actually doesn't make that much of a difference going from 4 to
4.3 but here we go in terms of the size of the phone but it does make the images
look a little bit bigger this is also a 4.3 in screen but a larger phone design
design on the HTC 8X so you can see it's a little bit longer on the bottom one
thing that I actually did not realize is that that little uh USB connector I
showed you guys can be used for HDMI so that's why I thought it looked kind of
weird but with a special cable you can use it as an HDMI output which I
personally think is very freaking cool so they're saying that it comes with ice
cream sandwich but it's Jelly Bean is going to be either rolling out or is
rolling out right now according to the information that we found so it's up to
date as far as Android operating systems go I don't think I've shown you guys
what the phone looks like in any more detail so this piece right here on the
back is actually metal and has a very nice feel to it uh the piece on the
bottom here is rubberized and then the piece on the top here feels more like a
well I don't know if it's rubber but it's soft touch anyway so this feels
more like a soft touch finish up here as well I like this because the way that I
hold a phone is I'll I'll tend to support it with my pinky so that I can
reach the entire keyboard cuz I have kind of smaller hands so having this not
be a slick metal piece here actually is beneficial to to certain people in terms
of included accessories there's not a whole lot You' get a wallart so there's
your little HTC uh this should be a one amp yep HTC 1 amp wallart as well as a
micro USB cable for charging you also get a little quick start guide that
shows you where all of the stuff on your phone is that's the touchcreen yay oh
one of the other details of the touchcreen that I wanted to uh cover
again Amed so super dark super deep blacks and then check this
out viewing angle should be pretty much perfect with no Distortion regardless of
how you're looking at it can you see that
diesel I'm getting kind of an iffy sort of Y yeah we got it now so absolutely
gorgeous I don't think I mentioned yet that the CPU is clocked at 1.7 GHz and
it has 16 Meg 16 Megs yeah only 16 Megs internal storage don't worry about it
store everything in the cloud data is free anyway uh 16 gigs internal storage
unfortunately this particular phone can't be expanded with micro SD but
given that you actually can't install apps off micro SD it's up to the
individual user whether that's an actual uh detriment or not personally I never
used all 16 gigs on my iPhone 4 in two years so I'm not a power user when it
comes to storage space but if you are then that might be a bit of a problem
for you I think that pretty much wraps it up I don't think I missed anything
here and thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the HTC 1S so
that is the step down from the 1X don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for
more unboxings reviews and other computer videos I don't think I
mentioned this already but the 1080p video that it records is actually at 30
FPS so just for for Ls I'm going to
record some video here maybe we'll catch our production crew hello so you guys
can watch that video actually here we'll watch that video on the uh on the good
one play oh I think I have auto rotate off
we'll be back all right so here's our video playback now that I've uh enabled
that there we go I have noticed already that it's
smoother than the uh than the 1080p 30fps video that I was recording on my
8X you can see it adjusts for the lights behind slick pretty well right there I
don't think I mentioned before that it has one gig of RAM I don't think we're
even on not even on full screen brightness
yet there we go okay well I think that wraps it up
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